SUMMARY:

• 19+ years of IT experience which includes 7 years of software development experience and 12+ years of Project/Program management experience handling software development projects in Water fall & Agile methodologies.
• Strong experience in establishing and leading global teams (Onshore & Offshore model).
• Seasoned professional who is focused on delivery with quality, with an outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource management skills, with ability to support multiple projects in an enterprise organizational structure.
• Excel at communicating stake holders to provide project status, reports.
• Strong leadership skills with proven ability to guide, lead and mentor cross functional teams within and/or outside the organization.
• Coached/mentored the teams on Agile, Worked on waterfall to agile transformation projects, defined processes and tools best suited to each project.
• Experience in managing projects in both projectized and matrix environments.
• Managed/Executed projects of extremely high risk, time sensitive, complexity and visibility

SKILLS:

PMI

PMO

Unspecified

PMP

Project Lifecycle

Project Manager

Requisite Pro

SCRUM

Star Team

Version Control

JIRA

Junit

Rally

Unit Testing

ANT

Change Management

Deployment

Rollout

Life Cycle

MVC

Rational

Requirements Analysis

Technical Design

MS Project

Microsoft SharePoint

SharePoint

Application Server

Content Management

Design Patterns

HTML

JavaScript

Microsoft Project Server

Requirement Analysis

SVN

Systems Integration

Visio

Visual Basic vb 6

Unspecified vb 6.0

XML

XSLT

Eclipse

EJB

J2EE

Java

Hibernate

Spring

JSP

Servlets

Struts

WSAD

ASP

CSS

Internet Information Services

IIS

WEB Server

Weblogic

WebSphere db2

MS SQL Server

SQL Server

Oracle

PL/SQL

SQL

HP UX

Solaris, unix

UX, citrix

HP - UX

Model-View-Controller

Parsing, ms office

Model View Controller

Financial Management

Project Scheduling

Resource Utilization

Trading

Risk Management estimating

Metrics

Forecasts

Estimation

DOM

Budget, program manager

Problem Solver

Test Cases

QA

Business Requirements

Scheduling

Mentoring

Offshore

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Powerpoint

PowerPoint

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MN

Sr Project Manager/Program manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple applications which fall under water fall, Hybrid and Agile methodologies.
• The applications are used by the call center agents for case, contract, fund management. One of the applications is an ecommerce application used for buying products from Confidential, through a call center agent.
• Managed tech debt projects which includes, infrastructure upgrades, technology upgrades, etc.
• Playing multiple roles(Project manager/Program manager/Scrum master) in the portfolio, depending on the application and the type of scope/changes to the application, by managing project scope, budget, schedule and quality.
• Effectively create, deliver presentations, reports and communicating project status to leader ship on a regular basis.
• Different types of status reports are generated for weekly, bi - weekly, and monthly status meetings.
• Managing risks and coming up with mitigation plans accordingly.
• Define, customize/tailor documentations/deliverables (Plans, schedule, resource plans, etc..) as required for the project.
• Organized, facilitated and involved in sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and release planning.
• Managed to get internal security approvals for all the major deployments.
• Proactively raise a flag and come up with solutions/options to avoid major risks/issues that would impact scope, cost, schedule.
• Worked with product owners/ business sponsors to create a road map(The functionalities with the release dates) for the product delivery.
• Financial/Resource forecasting(Bi weekly), reviews(Monthly) based on the allocated budget.
• Experience interacting with multiple stake holders(Internal/External) including Product owners, business owners, agent sites, engineering leaders, vendors etc.
• Used JIRA/Excel for tracking the project delivery from initiation to deployment.
• Managing offshore and onshore teams on day-to-day basis.

Confidential

Agile Project Manager/Scrum master

Responsibilities:

• Managed two scrum teams
• Organized, facilitated and involved in sprint planning, daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning.
• Organized, facilitated and involved in sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and release planning.
• Mentored and coached the team on agile practices.
• Efficiently and effectively collaborated with cross functional team members as part of the project delivery
• Status updates to the leadership team both in waterfall and agile ways.
• RALLY for Agile Project management
• Experience managing geographically diverse teams(Offshore / Onshore model).
• Lead Scrum of Scrums

Confidential

Senior Project Manager/Program manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Home and community based application that support aged, blind, and disabled individuals so they can remain in their own homes and avoid institutionalization.
• Provided leadership in effective management of the project scope, budget, schedule and quality.
• Lead cross - functional project teams that include business units, cross functional IT teams, creative teams, vendors, and other consultants through all phases of the project life cycle
• Responsible for facilitating requirements workshops/ walk through with the state representatives and address the feedback received from them.
• Oversee project activities in compliance with program priorities and resource utilization to meet the goals and objectives.
• Financial management around $7M. Monitor Costs, Forecasts, resource fore casts, etc. and make recommendations to management accordingly.
• Served as a primary problem solver for any issues, roadblocks, maintaining responsibility for their resolution
• Weekly and monthly Status reports to leadership team on the project status, open issues, and plan for addressing the issues.
• Full oversight on design, development, deployment to production.
• Change Management, PCMB(Project Change Management Board), Release Management.
• Managed UAT and get a Go/No Go from the state officials, before the changes are moved to production.
• Identified and developed new opportunities on current initiatives.
• Risk Management, Issue management and defect management.
• Ability to proactively identify and recommend program improvements
• Managed geographically diverse teams(Offshore / Onshore model).
• As state specified the compliance with all applicable standards and policies are ensured.
• Provided guidance/mentor other junior project managers and support staff as required.

Confidential, MI

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed the applications 1. Functionality to calculate the emission fuel economy system 2.
• Installed equipment in the vehicle which provides, emergency road assistance, call to an agent, etc.. Collaborated with cross functional teams in global locations to build software solutions/architectures that resolved complex business problems.
• Mentored the team in all the phases of the software development life cycle starting from requirements gathering, design, development, testing and deployment.
• Efficiently collaborated with all the stake holders to maintain a continuous stream of information regarding the project status and progress
• Oversee team members in the execution of project management activities to ensure quality.
• Provided the status updates to clients, internal and external stake holders based on the meeting cadence.
• Proactively identify and manage project risks/issues and come up with mitigation plans as required.
• Recommend solutions/options to any issues/risks that could negatively impact the scope/ cost/ delivery.
• Conducted BETA reviews with the business, implemented extreme programming which includes immediate fixes/changes based on the feedback.
• Conducted project tollgates which includes code reviews, security approval, etc.
• Used HP quality center(ALM) for Defect and Test Management Organized, facilitated and involved in sprint planning, daily stand - up meetings, reviews, retrospectives and release planning.
• Managed geographically diverse teams from India, USA and China to support testing.

Confidential

Technical lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed a prototype of the application and demonstrated to business users to verify the application functionality.
• Developed and implemented the MVC Architectural Pattern using Struts/springs Framework including JSP, Servlets, EJB, Form Bean and Action classes.
• Integrated Spring DAO for data access using with Hibernate.
• Implemented Java and J2EE Design patterns like Business Delegate and Data Transfer Object (DTO), Data Access Object and Service Locator.
• Requirement Analysis & Designing.
• Analysis of Business Requirements & converting the requirements into technical design.
• Onsite/Offshore coordination
• Implementing J2EE design patterns as part of WebSphere portal development
• Used ANT automated build scripts to compile and package the application and implemented Log4j for the project.
• Mentoring Junior developers
• Code reviews using Fortify, PMD tools
• Used SVN as Version control.

Confidential, NYC

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis & Designing.
• Analysis of Business Requirements & impact analysis of changes on the Application.
• Provide Technical Design Approach.
• Provide Technical Design Approach on creating Portlets.
• Implementing J2EE design patterns as part of WebSphere portal development
• Implemented Struts Validation Framework for Server side validation.
• Implemented Struts Action classes using Struts controller component.
• Worked on Open Market Content management tool.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis & Designing.
• Developed and implemented the MVC Architectural Pattern using Struts Framework including JSP, Servlets, EJB, Form Bean and Action classes.
• Implemented Struts Validation Framework for Server side validation.
• Implemented Struts Action classes using Struts controller component.
• Implemented EJBs Session beans for business logic.
• Used parsers like SAX and DOM for parsing xml documents and used XML transformations using XSLT.
• Created and deployed web pages using HTML, JSP, JavaScript and CSS.
• Written JUnit Test cases for perform unit testing.
• Used SVN as Version control. Implemented Java and J2EE Design patterns like Business Delegate and Data Transfer Object (DTO), Data Access Object and Service Locator.
• Worked with QA team for testing and resolve defects.